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Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]>
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        I received this on the POLIO list and thought some of you would be
interested.

Bobby

> Disabled Hoosiers suing Indiana
> By The Associated Press
> Evansville Courier & Press
> July 15, 2000
>
> Disabled residents are suing Indiana, claiming state agencies are not
> doing enough to keep them out of nursing homes so they can live more
> independently.
> Four disabled Lake County residents and an advocacy group are
> demanding that more disabled people have the option of living in
> apartments or homes with help from Medicaid.
> If the lawsuit is successful, more than 7,000 disabled people who are
> now on waiting lists to live in neighborhoods may benefit. Attorneys
> are asking that the case be certified as class-action, so residents of
> other states could be affected as well.
> "We're trying to afford people with disabilities access to their right
> to live lives like the rest of us," said Teresa Torres, executive
> director of Everybody Counts, in Merrillville.
> Torres said disabled residents shouldn't be "warehoused off in a
> corner in a nursing home."
> "We're trying to get the state to recognize that as a priority.
> Indiana needs to catch up with the rest of the world," she said.
> The lawsuit alleges that plaintiffs such as Karen Adams have "no
> realistic hope of living in the community, despite their wishes."
> Adams has lived in a nursing home for five years, since her mother
> died. The 40-year-old woman has cerebral palsy and epilepsy and uses a
> wheelchair. She has never been offered the choice of living anywhere
> else.
> The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Marion County against the state's
> Family and Social Services Administration. It also alleges that
> Indiana's Medicaid spending for community care ranks low in comparison
> to other states.
> State officials admit there are waiting lists. Andrew Stoner, a social
> services spokesman, said 1,800 people are on a waiting list for one
> Medicaid-funded community care program that serves the elderly and
> disabled. 39
>


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